Poll: What gives them the right?

[ZeLunarian]

I feel like there is some context missing from the OP.
But on that I will say, what you do on you're own time is not the school's business.

Sounds like they're trying to break two people up from this distant spot I'm at. It would take something extreme for me to even consider wishing that on someone.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

What gives you the right to talk to her, eh?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

They do it was to often.

 

[Karlaxx]

FUCK NO they shouldn't be able to do that. Humans are social things, in the big picture: We communicate, and we have to communicate for our sanity (at least every once and a while). Some school board has no right to say who you can't talk to, not for those reasons.

My geometry teacher moved one of my classmates away from the problem kids in one corner, but that wasn't truly forced, I don't think; the kid valued the prospect of passing the class more than that nattering. That's the only instance of a public educator controlling who a student talks to justifiable.

 

[Ivan Issaccs]

I'm not sure if your in the states but as you listed school years it sounded a lot more like the UK.
Now as far as I'm aware theirs absolutely nothing as far as law goes that means they can order anyone to stop talking to anyone else short of police and court involvement.

So basically you can tell your year head, in more diplomatic terms, to go violate themselves with broken glass.

 

[snow]

Do school year advisers have the right to intervene in student relationships and stop you from talking to people you want to, say a girl you like, all because their friends complained?

Yes this has happened to me. And yes the girl had no problems with me talking to her.

I can see them doing it if it was the girl herself the made the complaint, but if it was some one of the third party, then no, they are wrong...

 

[Laft Kranz]

Well, by "intervene in student relationships" it could mean stop the 18 year olds from dating the 13 year olds (my friend did this and no matter how many times we told him not to he kept robbing the cradle as per se). In general I oppose it, it just depends on a case by case basis.

 

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

no. no, no, no, no. no.